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| Interactive Flash |
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Giving your movies instructions
Working with the Actions panel
Direct typing
Who are you talking to?
Controlling movie clips on the stage
Arguments
Listening to what your movies are telling you
Events in Flash
External events
Internal events
Introducing event handlers .
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| Movies That Remember |
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Introducing variables
Creating variables and using them with literals and expressions
Naming variables
Creating variables
Using literal values
Using expressions
Input and output
Using string expressions
Working with numbers
Other uses for numeric expressions
Working with Boolean values
Logic operators
Arrays
Reasons for using arrays
Arrays let you store related information together
Arrays let you hold information in a specific order
Arrays let you index information
Arrays let you link information
Creating a new array
Typing an array Using variable values as offsets
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| Movies That Decide for Themselves |
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Decision making
Making decisions in ActionScript: The if action
Defining a decision
Alternative actions
Acting on alternatives: The else action
More than one alternative: The else if action
Handling lots of alternatives: The switch action
Switching without breaks
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| More Power, Less Script |
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Timeline loops
ActionScript loops
while loops
Useful things to do with while loops
for loops
init
condition
next
Some useful examples of for loops
Simple loop
Reverse loop
Two at a time
Looping through elements in an array
Applying an operation to all the elements in an array
Searching an array for a specific value
Cross-indexing a pair of arrays
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| Movies That Remember How to Do Things |
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Breaking down a task
Bundling actions and running them afterward
Using anonymous and named functions
Using functions to hide evil math
Using functions to take care of repetitive jobs
Choosing which actions to bundle and where
Arguments and redundancy
Local variables and modular code
Returning values from a function
Typing functions
Running in circles
Nesting functions
Using nested functions
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| Objects and Classes |
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Introducing objects and classes
Type and object-oriented programming
Classes, generalization, and abstraction
Seeing arrays in a new light
The Array constructor method
Other Array methods
Array properties
Creating classes and objects (instances) in Flash
Instances
The Object object
Viewing an object in Flash
Constructors
Objects, objects, everywhere
Lurking objects
Making a show reel |
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| Objects on the Stage |
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Movie clips and buttons as objects
Symbol types and behaviors
Two sides of the same object
Working with Library items
Let chaos reign
Bitmap caching
The other side of bitmap caching
Bitmap caching and RAM
Changing the appearance of a cached movie clip
When to use bitmap caching
Referencing different timelines with ActionScript
Different place, different variable
Locating variables from inside an event handler function
Reusing handler functions
The apply method
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Breaking down big tasks into smaller ones
Black-box programmingCreating simple components
Creating a modular set of playback controls
Dark Valentine
Modular control of movie clips
How to simulate realistic movement
Motion with acceleration
Trailing the pointer (a mouse follower)
Understanding the inertial code
Fine-tuning the component
Function-based modular code
Swarming behavior
Taking the swarming effect forward
Creating tweens with ActionScript
Using import to access the Tween class
How to use the Tween constructor function
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| Games and Sprites |
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What is a sprite?
Control
External and internal data
Movement
Collision
Planning zapper
The game world (the main timeline)
gSCREEN_TOP, gSCREEN_BOTTOM, gSCREEN_RIGHT, and gSCREEN_LEFT
score
level, skill, and accel
speed
shipDead, fired, and gSHIP_HEIGHT
The timeline
The codeGlobal constants
The “start game” trigger
The player (the ship)
The SwarmAlien
alienSpawn()
onEnterFrame
alienBrain()
alienReincarnate()
The SwarmAlien code
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| Adding Sound to Flash |
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Choosing the right sound format
Using sound on a timeline
Using the ActionScript Sound class
Playing sounds from ActionScript
Attaching sounds to a sound instance
Starting and stopping sounds
Creating dynamic soundtracks
Using ActionScript to control volume and balance
Dealing with large sound files
Using compression to reduce download times
Loading sound from external files
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Working with Multimedia
Responding to Events
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| Flash Action Script Excercise |
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Faculty start
Password start
Hangman
Particle Loop
Particles toggle caching
Showreel
Zapper cache As Bitmap
Inertia
Tween Class demo
Tweens
Sounds
Sound Loader
Controls
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